Tokyo Ghoul: Regina

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Reina

"Kaito, you awake?" I wake up Kaito as it's the next day.
"I let you sleep in a bit, but you got to get up now." I told her as she gets up. She starts to get unchanged when I'm standing right in front of her, seeing that slight surgical scar on her stomach.
"Woah, change in the bathroom, Mariko brought a change of clothes." I instructed her and threw her in the bathroom. She's slimmed up and has gotten more mature, her face isn't that puffy anymore. She quickly changes into a dark blue dress shirt and black slacks with those doc martens I got her for Christmas.

"Looks nice." I complimented her.
"I'm so tired, what happened last night?" She asks me as she grabs her bag.
"Oh, uh, you got in a little incident, everyone is okay, and you are too." I explained.
"I've been so tired lately, sorry."
"I understand, it's the stress you've endured since I was gone." I told her as we left her room. "You got to take care of yourself." I said to her.

Kaito

"Arita, hello." Toyama welcomes us back, a bit frightened and without a shirt.
"Where's the others?"
"Working, me, Amano, and Haruki stayed back since we had a day off." He responds as he sits down.
"Why don't you have a shirt on?" I ask him.
"I just got out of the shower, sorry, I'll go throw one on." He runs back upstairs.
"Want something to eat?" Reina asks me as she goes into the kitchen.
"I'm good, I'm going to take a bath" I told her as I head into the bathroom. I start the water and I unchange, yanking my shirt off. "What's that?" I ask myself as I look in the mirror, seeing a purple colored marking on my upper back. "That's creepy?" I told myself as I got into the water.

"Kaito." I hear a voice outside my door. It was Amano, holding a box of things. "I need help sorting these, they're the files that withhold evidence of Kei's activity, Reina was supposed to do it, but I decided to fumble the bag and obliged for her." He explains. "Plus, I want to become more of an asset to the team." He places it on my bed.
"Fine." I sighed and opened the lid. "This is it?" I pulled out a bunch of files.
"Well this is what we only have of Kei, that's what Jirou told me." He says.
"He's the lead of Oslo as of right now, but we cannot confirm where Kinuko is, or condition." I told him. "When Reina fought her almost three years ago, she was in a bad condition and under that thick flesh, that's what Hide told me." I informed him. "We might be closer than we thought, we just got to set a trap." I said as I get up.
"Amano, I want you to talk to Usui." I ask him, which makes him flustered.
"FOR WHAT?" He shrieks.
"Ask her to find old files of Kei, I might be closer to gutting him, and finding Kinuko, and saving Reina." I tell him as I put the old files back in. "By the way, what is up with you and Kishimoto?" He asks me, which makes me flustered.
"Nothing." I respond.

Amano

"Hey, is Usui here?" I ask her assistant as I head there the next morning.
"She's in a meeting right now with higher up, you may wait in her office." She smiles and takes me there. In the past two years, I've been working on nothing much, mostly doing assistance work for the United Front, that's all. While everyone else is doing the fun parts, I'm stuck here as a little pet. "Here is her office, she'll be here in around 15 minutes." She closes the door.
"Damn, what is this, a fancy thing?" I go up to her desk. "Alright, let's see if there is any secret files." I smirked. "I shouldn't." I quickly thought as I put my feet back in her chair.

"Amano, take that look from off your face!" I hear Reina scold me during training. It was our first week starting to train with Sensei. She was a stern leader, she grips onto success like a tightrope. I kept getting my ass kicked. "Come on, let's take a break." Sensei tells everyone as she helps me up.
"HAHAHHAH, YOU GOT YOUR ASS BEAT!" I hear Mariko shout as I sit down.
"Here." I see Usui come up with a medic kit.
"It's fine, I can heal quickly, unlike you." I pushed her away.
"The cut over your eyebrow hasn't healed yet, let me fix it." She dabs a alchohol wipe on my cut, which stings.
"If your mom was here, you would be in the hospital." Mariko laughs, which she gets her leg kicked by Jirou.
"I know my mom has that long word thingy." "Munchausen by proxy, is the word." Usui responds. "There, it's fixed, with a bandaid." She puts the bandaid on and gives a light smirk. "Hey, Amano." I see Kaito come up to me. "You're not that bad, actually, but a pain in the ass, let's continue and not try to hook up with brainiac here." She tells me.
"Oh, alright." I got up and walked to the mat.

"Oh, Yukio, hey!" Usui comes in and closes the door.
"I need a few things." I got up, and I put my hands in my jacket pockets. "I need the Kei Watanabe files, like from CCG time." I asked her, which makes her surprised. "Are they lost?" I ask her again.
"I just didn't know you guys were still on the case, I thought Suzuya told you to get off." She smirks and cleans her desk.
"Well, he gave us a few advantages." I gave a lie. "Oh, I'll be glad to let you borrow them." She smiles and takes me out of the door.

"How has your new job been?" I ask her, biting my nails.
"It's wonderful, it's a bit complicated sometimes, but hopefully I can see you guys more." She says, striding down the hallway in high heels. She has grown her auburn orange hair longer, and still has that eyepatch on her yellow golden eyes. "What've you been up to, Yukio?" She asks me. "Nothing much, I've haven't gotten that much assignments because I'm the backup." I sighed. "Well we have that in common, we're the backup and the only Quinx in the squad, we should do more."
"Now that Toyama is the only human left, I feel less surprised if he ever gets that surgery by injury." I sighed. "He's a weird guy, but I do love him."
"Here we are." Usui leads me to the storage room, which is kind of cramped.
"Hasn't been used really in around six years." Usui turns on the light. I hear the faint noises of music playing. "Might take a while, it's on this shelf." She shows me. I take off my jacket since it's a bit sweaty, and I start to look.

"Would I get in trouble if I was in here?' I asked her as I grab a container and sit on the floor and start to look through it.
"No, I've seen Arita come around here a lot." "Should've known." I gave a slight smirk. "Haruki has become apart of your party now, sorry." I told her.
"No, I'm glad for him, it felt like he came to us after Reina was gone during that time." She smiles. She has gotten happier, kind of happy since she was always stressed with us.
"I wish I was like them." I grunted as I sighed and rest my head in my palms.
"Don't get frustrated, they like you."
"I know but I'm always the one that is always in the background, I want to do more." I say frustratingly. I finally grab Kei's files and put them in my messenger bag. "Got them?" "Yup, Kaito will like me more." I joked as I got up. "Sorry this is the only time I came to see ya." I apologized.
"Quite apologizing, it's nice seeing you." She says. "You saved my life during those battles, I need to owe you one, if you would accept it." She tells me. "You don't, people who are in shambles don't need to owe me." I smirked.
"Hey, I can leave early, let's go see Reina, I feel like I need to." Usui says.

"ETSU!" I hear Reina shout as I see her go to hug Usui. "You've gotten so mature!" She says to her. "Thank you." Usui responds.
"You've gotten, prettier." I heard her say, which makes me somewhat crack up.
"Well at least she tried to compliment her." Toyama smirks as he sits on the couch.
"Hello, Shima, and Jirou!" Usui waves as I put my hands in my pockets. "Where's Naito and Haruki?" She asks.
"Busy, they'll be here late." Reina says.
"You're looking pretty." Jirou compliments her. "Oh stop with the compliments, it's making me nauseated." I slouched on the couch.
"Oh come on, lighten up a bit, everyone needs a compliment from time to time." Toyama tells me. "Who would've guessed, I'm the least attractive, you have those looks that can kill a girl." I turned my head to Toyama, who makes a sad smirk and his eyebrows go down. "Sorry, I forgot you're easily sensitive." I smirked.
"No, you're totally fine!" He laughs.
"I think you're pretty swell, Yukio." Etsu laughs. "You always had those gloomy eyes."
"I was always rejected." I pout.
"Oh, cheer up."

"Amano, can I come in?" I hear Toyama on my door as I'm sorting through my music collection. "Uh, sure." I respond as I hold up a cd.
"What's that?" He asks me.
"My favorite album, it's a j-rock band." I showed him, which he lowers.
"About that comment you made earlier."
"Which one?" I ask him.
"The one where you said my looks can kill..?" He says as I go on the floor again and look through my cds.
"I know it came off weird at such a hard time, but dude, you can get chicks by the group!" I told him. "You got every quality a person wants, hot, smart, and rich, even if you're in a geek squad." "Well yeah um-"
"Don't tell me you like Kaito, is it because she's a tiny girl and you're a bi-"
"Amano, stop!" He raises his voice. "Man, you chit chat too much." He lowers his head.
"Hey, man, what's wrong?" I ask him concerned. "Only a few people know but, I'm not really attracted to women, and that goes with Kaito." He says quietly.
"Oh." I let out slowly. "Damn, I'm sorry if I pushed it too far." I apologize to him.
"No, no, you didn't know, it's not your fault." Toyama assures me.
"Seriously, dude, you don't really have to hide it anymore, we're family, you're my brother."
"Okay, I won't hide anything anymore." He smiled